On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:47:39AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Murray J. Root wrote:
> 
> >So the correct calculation is 
> >
> >1600*1200 pixels * 32bpp/8bits_per_byte / (1024*1024 bytes_per_Meg) = 7.3M
> 
> Even more correct would be to add 30% to both H & V pixels to allow for 
> the necessary blanked overscan during hsync and vsync pulses.     This 
> is because the H & V oscillators never stop.
> 
> See the video timings howto.
> 

Which has absolutely nothing to do with how much RAM the video mode takes. 

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Murray J. Root
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